Tag: petya
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Let’s not help attackers by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt
A week and a half after the outbreak of (Not)Petya , we are still not 100% certain about the motivation of the attackers. Was it a (failed) attempt to extort money from a large number of organizations? Did a nation-state-affiliated group intend to take an armed conflict into the cyber realm by causing as much…
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Let’s not help attackers by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt
A week and a half after the outbreak of (Not)Petya , we are still not 100% certain about the motivation of the attackers. Was it a (failed) attempt to extort money from a large number of organizations? Did a nation-state-affiliated group intend to take an armed conflict into the cyber realm by causing as much…
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Security advice in the wake of WannaCry and Not(Petya)
The recent outbreaks of WannaCry and (Not)Petya have left many users and organizations understandably confused about what to do and how to fend off such attacks. Thankfully, security experts are always happy to give advice. I decided to collect together and compile a list of the most important, and most frequently given, advice. Always install…
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Security advice in the wake of WannaCry and Not(Petya)
The recent outbreaks of WannaCry and (Not)Petya have left many users and organizations understandably confused about what to do and how to fend off such attacks. Thankfully, security experts are always happy to give advice. I decided to collect together and compile a list of the most important, and most frequently given, advice. Always install…
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48 hours after initial reports, many mysteries remain around the latest ransomware/wiper threat
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare’s philosophising can equally be applied to malware, and whether you call it Petya, NotPetya, Nyetya or Petna, the latest piece of malware to hit the headlines is just as damaging. The name isn’t the only thing…
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48 hours after initial reports, many mysteries remain around the latest ransomware/wiper threat
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare’s philosophising can equally be applied to malware, and whether you call it Petya, NotPetya, Nyetya or Petna, the latest piece of malware to hit the headlines is just as damaging. The name isn’t the only thing…
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Throwback Thursday: One_Half: The Lieutenant Commander?
The recently encountered Petya trojan comes as something of a blast from the past: it infects the Master Boot Record (MBR) and encrypts the Master File Table (MFT). Kaspersky Lab ‘s Fedor Sinitsyn has a good description of the trojan in a blog post , in which he points out that, far from being anything new,…